Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2015:03:22 14:22:16)
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph of street art on the Work and Income New Zealand building in New Brighton. The artwork depicts a musician.
A photograph of street art on the Work and Income New Zealand building in New Brighton. The artwork depicts a musician.
A photograph of street art on a clothing bin on Battersea Street. Part of the street art reads, "Prove ANSR". Above this are two doves on either side of a yellow flower. One of the doves is light pink and the other is white.
There is very little research on total house strength that includes contributions of non-structural elements. This testing programme provides inclusive stiffness and response data for five houses of varying ages. These light timber framed houses in Christchurch, New Zealand had minor earthquake damage from the 2011 earthquakes and were lateral load tested on site to determine their strength and/or stiffness, and to identify damage thresholds. Dynamic characteristics including natural periods, which ranged from 0.14 to 0.29s were also investigated. Two houses were quasi-statically loaded up to approximately 130kN above the foundation in one direction. Another unidirectional test was undertaken on a slab-on-grade two-storey house, which was also snapback tested. Two other houses were tested using cyclic quasi-static loading, and between cycles snapback tests were undertaken to identify the natural period of each house, including foundation and damage effects. A more detailed dynamic analysis on one of the houses provided important information on seismic safety levels of post-quake houses with respect to different hazard levels in the Christchurch area. While compared to New Zealand Building Standards all tested houses had an excess of strength, damage is a significant consideration in earthquake resilience and was observed in all of the houses. http://www.aees.org.au/downloads/conference-papers/2015-2/